10 MARINE SHELLS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



COMINELLA (?) ANGUSTA, Sowerby, pi. 1, fig. 8 ; Journ. of 

 Conch, vol. v. p. 6. Port Elizabeth. 



COMINELLA LIMBOSA, Reeve (Buccinum), Conch. Icon, 

 pi. 5, fig. 35. Natal coast (Krauss), Table Bay, &c. 



COMINELLA PAPYRACEA, Bruguier#= Buccinum intinctum 

 (Reeve), Couch. Icon. pi. 5, fig. 32. Cape, and Natal coast 



(Krauss). 



COMINELLA VIOLACEA, Quoy d Gaim. (Buccinum), Voy. 

 de 1' Astro!. Moll. pi. 30, figs. 32-34 ; Krauss, Sudafr. Moll, 

 p. 120. Table Bay (Quoy and Gaimard). 



COMINELLA DELALANDII, Kiener (Buccinum), Coq. Viv. 

 p. 15, pi. 5, fig. 14. Cape (Kiener). 



COMINELLA GLANDIFORMIS, Reeve (Buccinum), Conch. 

 Icon. sp. 109. South Africa?. 



COMINELLA SEMISULCATA, Sowerby, nov. sp. pi. 1, fig. 7. 

 Testa subfusiformis, antice ventricosa, postice acuminata, 

 fusca ; spira turrita, apice acutiusculo ; anfractus 7, leviter 

 convexi, superne caualiculati, inferne spiraliter sulcati, aliter 

 minute striati ; sutura lira angusta marginata ; anfractus 

 ultirnus leviter inflatus, infra medium sulcis angustis circ. 

 10 sculptus; apertura ovata, alba, columella arcuata, alba; 

 peristoma simplex, vix incrassaturn. Long. 50 ; diam. maj. 

 24 millim. ; apertura longa 22, lata 12. 



Hab. Port Elizabeth. 



This species, of which I have only seen one specimen 

 (collected by Mr. Crawford), differs from its congeners, 

 C. porcata and C. lagenaria, principally in the upper half 

 of the whorls being smooth, and the lower half spirally 

 grooved. 



COMINELLA PIINKERI, Kuster, Conch. Cab. (Buccinum), 

 pi. 15, figs. 9-11. 



COMINELLA LAGENARTA, Deshayes (Buccinum), Eeeve, 

 Conch. Icon. (Buccinum), pi. 5, figs. 33, 34. Common at 

 Port Elizabeth. Var. = Purpura dubia (Krauss), Sudafr. 

 Moll., p. 117. -Port Elizabeth. 



COMINELLA PORCATA, Gmelin (Buccinum), Eeeve, Conch. 

 Jcon. pi. 4, fig. 22 = Buccinum, ligatum (Kiener). Port 

 Elizabeth . 



